Cystatic

I built Build Engine after losing months bouncing between ClickUp, Notion, Trello… nothing stuck. It’s a Shipping OS for founders—projects, experiments, launches—all in one dashboard. No generic tools. No chaos. Just ship faster and smarter. You can duplicate the Notion page and start in 2 minutes. Every feature is focused on helping founders build, validate, and launch ideas without getting...

👋 I didn’t start with wisdom. I started with confusion. Every founder hits walls — product failing, investors ghosting, team drama. And every time, I went hunting for answers in books. The problem? AI-generated “Top 10 Startup Books” lists. Intern-written blog posts. No scars. No context. No soul. One wrong book can cost weeks you’ll never get back. I remember staring at a stack of unread books...

I’ve seen the same founder failure pattern a hundred times: Ship product → Crickets → Pivot → Burnout. The real cause: building blind. I did it too. Months of coding for nobody. The fix wasn’t more code. It was talking to actual users. The right people. The right questions. Patterns emerged. User Research Kit gives you the exact system I use: Cold DM script → reach users without begging...

I’ve read 100+ SaaS post-mortems. The same patterns keep showing up. One big one: founders waste months chasing bad advice. I did too. Then I found 5 books that cut through it — The Lean Startup, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, and 3 more that shaped how I build. I read them cover-to-cover, pulled the key ideas, and built a Notion tracker so you can apply them without drowning in pages. It’s...